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# bedclothes

«bedclothes» in Mova's school dictionary: **The covers on a bed: sheets, blankets, a duvet or quilt…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bedclothes – plural only)

### meaning for a pupil

The covers on a bed: sheets, blankets, a duvet or quilt, and pillowcases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedclothes/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories children hide under the bedclothes with a torch to read, or pull the bedclothes over their heads when scared. In The Wind in the Willows Toad escapes from his bedroom by knotting his bedclothes into a rope and climbing out of the window – but never try this in real life, it is very dangerous.

### examples

- She pulled the bedclothes over her head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedclothes/#x1)
- Toad tied his bedclothes together to make a rope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedclothes/#x2)
- The cat was asleep in a heap of bedclothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedclothes/#x3)
- Mum changes the bedclothes every week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedclothes/#x4)
- The bedclothes were all tangled after the nightmare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedclothes/#x5)
- Never climb out of a window on bedclothes – it's dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedclothes/#x6)
- They talked about it all, while the little Rabbit lay under the bedclothes, with just his head peeping out, and listened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedclothes/#x7)

### note

Plural only: «the bedclothes are» (no «a bedclothe»). Today people often say «bedding» or «bed linen».

### In the corpora

- [His toes are freezing, and he dreams that his bedclothes have run downstairs to the kitchen fire to get warm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bedclothes» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedclothes/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.